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Quotes by Producer
"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever."
25
"Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth."
18
"It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail."
17
"My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out."
17
"I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will."
16
"I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer."
16
"It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies."
14
"If she was a victim of any kind, she was a victim of her friends."
13
"I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head."
12
"Life is about having a good time, and it was a good time. We did some things well and some things poorly, but that was always the case."
11
"I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?"
10
"It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create."
10
"Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union."
9
"Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!"
9
"The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail."
9
"Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine."
8
"I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia."
8
"I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases."
8
"I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes."
8
"Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them."
7
"There are only two classes - first class and no class."
7
"Certainly there's got to be a little bit of reality show fatigue happening."
7
"It is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose."
7
"Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing."
7
"I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is."
7
"And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe."
7
"I've got a huge, gigantic deal. We're talking about huge deals."
7
"You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world."
7
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